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Mass Oratory and Political Power in the Late Roman Republic

By Robert Morstein-Marx

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2004
ISBN
0521823277, 9780521823272
LCC
PA6083 .M67 2004
Open Library ID
OL22575234M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3999998 bytes)
Pages
328\328
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50

Description

Examining how public political discourse influenced the distribution of power between the Senate and people in the Late Roman Republic (133-42 BC), this work analyzes comprehensively the "ideology" of Republican mass oratory. Robert Morstein-Marx analyzes it within the institutional, historical and physical contexts of the public meetings in which these speeches were heard. Morstein-Marx emphasizes the perpetual negotiation and reproduction of power through communication.

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